Archived posts, July 2003
CMS, standards and semantics
A few years ago, web designers and developers nearly always were the ones who filled their client’s sites with content….
Centering with CSS
Back in the old days, if you wanted to center your whole (fixed size) page both horizontally and vertically in…
Fun with forms
Most people working with the web need to create HTML forms from time to time. Some of us have to…
Don’t BuyMusic from us
Some of you may know that BuyMusic recently launched an online music store that is somewhat similar to Apple’s iTunes…
More dropshadows
I was browsing the entries at the CSS Zen Garden and was inspired by an entry called Friendly Beaches, which…
Dropshadows
Hmm… looks like maybe I should start a “How to do it with CSS”-section on this site. The other day…
Rounded corners
I spent some time exploring different ways of creating a box with rounded corners. After checking out how other people…
Using the right tool for the right job
After reading Julie Albertson’s Still not wild for Flash, it seems she is of the same opinion as I am…
More thoughts on the death of Netscape
Much has been written about last week’s very strange move by AOL. Killing Netscape is something I just can’t see…
Interviews worth reading
AppleMatters interviews Jeffrey Zeldman. Do yourself a favour and stop reading after the interview. The comments section that follows is…
More CSS designs
Yesterday i mentioned Hicksdesign as an example of a kind of layout that I personally am no big fan of,…
Cool things to do with CSS by the end of the decade
Seamus Leahy has made a demo of a menu bar that uses some nice CSS tricks. Too bad (but not…
Intelligent browser recommendations
Via adot’s notblog* and Rasterweb I found a page at the University of Washington with a nice description of why…
Validate your validation
For the last couple of years I’ve been advocating the benefits of validating your HTML and CSS. The result has…
CSS Golf
The Open Championship is the official site of the British Open golf competition that kicked off today. All coded in…
Netscape murdered
I have been known to say that ”Netscape 4 must die”. I still believe the web would be a better…
Building Accessible Websites
Accessibility expert Joe Clark has now made his entire book Building Accessible Websites available online. For your own good, read…
Old Skool Look, New Skool Code
Hicksdesign has a design that reminds me of what web sites often look like when a designer makes all the…
Summer cleaning
It’s been two weeks since my last entry, so I have plenty of stuff to write about now. John Gruber…
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Roger Johansson is a Swedish web professional specialising in web standards, accessibility, and usability. More about me and this site.
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